Now here's a sound I wasn't expecting to hear again this yearâthat golden-era of pop-EDM crossover via Ke$ha and Taio Cruz. And, again, twisting the recipe harder, the song is advocating hard for pirating all your games and softwareâwhich somehow has double relevancy this week given I keep seeing posts on Twitter and Tumblr about somebody ironically named PirateSoftware shooting down campaigns to make piracy legal because it inconvenienced him. I wonder what that's about... So, yes. Pop-EDM that's aping Dynamite pretty heavily while being nothing like it. More than any song she's made this decade so far, this one feels like it's having the most pure and distilled funâsomething I'm aware is chalked up to my own nostalgia. It's very good music, anyway.
feat. Tara Yummy who I believe is a gen z influencer⊠I know little about her but this song eats down⊠early 2000s scene kid jam vibes uggggh it really tickles me
to be honest⊠all of Avenue Dâs tracks are a goldmine of cunty vibes and real pro-slut themes. Makes me happy to know that someone really gets itâŠ
Callie Nixon's debut album as flatroom is all it's cracked up to be and more. Not just content to be behind the boards as a talented producer with roots in the fledgling Dariacore scene, she's also an immensely affecting composer and singer-songwriter with influences from noughties-era country and folk. On I Don't Even Need, these two influences combine like headstrong bucks, relaxed and warm acoustic guitar-driven folk giving way to a rushing, soaring burst of happy hardcore arpeggios and energy. It's hands down the best song on the album, and it's really fighting for that spot between the album version of Blood sugar and the cover of When the Stars Go Blue.
Getting a lot more into Spanish-language music as of recentâfrom Spain, France, Chile, Mexico, Argentina, and in the case of Esteman, Colombia. This piece, the second off his 2021 album Si Volviera A Nacer, features some beautiful vocals from Mexico's Daniela Spalla, and a melody that is eerily reminiscent (to me, anyway) of Centuries by Fall Out Boy. A very nocturnal song that I've been using as a soundtrack to my nightly drive home from work this past month.
I've just had "music to do evil things to" on the mind as of recent. This one's in a more EDM vein, peddling a little hardstyle, a little festival trap, a little
techno... it's fun as hell.